Jacobo Fernández Serrano
Jacobo Fernández Serrano (Vigo, 1971) es licenciado en Bellas Artes en la especialidad de pintura por la Universidad Complutense. Ilustrador, pintor, diseñador y cómico, como autor de literatura infantil publicó en la colección Merlin de Xerais los libros A gardería de dona Bixelmina (2005), A pedra e as formigas (2006) y Mil cosas poden pasar. Libro I (2009), Premio Merlín de literatura infantil. Se inició en la ilustración de libros de literatura infantil en Xerais con As aventuras de Nunavut de Xoán Abeleira serie de la que ha publicado cuatro libros: O nacemento de Nunavut (2003), Un día de caza (2003), Sedna, la diosa del mar (2004) y El amor caribú (2005), le siguieron otros para diversas editoriales Tres cuentos maravillosos de Vicen
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Along with having a famous father, poet Takaaki Yoshimoto, Banana's sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan. Growing up in a liberal family, she learned the value of independence from a young age.
She graduated from Nihon University's Art College, majoring in Literature. During that time, she took the pseudonym "Banana" after her love of banana flowers, a name she recognizes as both "cute" and "purposefully androgynous."
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Amélie Nothomb
Amélie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japan at the age of two until she was five years old. Subsequently, she lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, the United Kingdom (Coventry) and Laos.
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She is from a distinguished Belgian political family; she is notably the grand-niece of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a Belgian foreign minister (1980-1981). Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin, was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year with a.o. Les Catilinaires (1995), Stupeur Et Tremblements (1999) and Métaphysique des tubes (2000).
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In 2011, she published a novel Rien ne s'oppose a la nuit (Nothing holds back the night) that deals with a family coping with their mother's bipolar disorder. In her native France, the novel brought her a set of awards, including the prix du roman Fnac (the prize given by the Fnac bookstores) and the prix Renaudot des lycéens. -
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Es licenciada en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad de los Andes, donde ocupa la cátedra de Literatura desde 1981.
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Vilariño was one of the outstanding figures of Uruguayan poetry, with her lyric creations collected in works such as “La Suplicante” (The Supplicant), “Poemas de Amor” (Love Poems) and “Nocturnos” (Nocturnes).
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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” -
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Naceu en Monforte de Lemos, de familia procedente do Incio. Estudou no colexio dos Escolapios, e comezou a escribir con 15 anos. Tras rematar o COU marchou a Madrid, onde comezou Ciencias Políticas e Socioloxía. Logo dunha estancia en Monforte traballando na empresa familiar, adicada ao vidro, regresou a Madrid para estudar lingua inglesa, francesa e alemá. Alí fundou a revista Loia xunto a Antón Patiño, Manuel Rivas e o seu irmán Xosé Manuel Pereiro.
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Yolanda Castaño trasladouse en 1990 á Coruña, onde rematou a carreira de Filoloxía Hispánica e cursou estudos audiovisuais. Deuse a coñecer, na adolescencia, a través dunha serie de premios de poesía menores até que, grazas ó Premio Fermín Bouza Brey 1994, publicou o seu primeiro libro, Elevar as pálpebras (1995), contando 17 anos. Ademais deste galardón, foi merecedora do Premio Johán Carballeira polo seu terceiro poemario, Vivimos no ciclo das Erofanías, que tamén obtivo o Premio da Crítica Española en 1998.
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Emma Pedreira (A Coruña, 1978). Filóloga, poeta e narradora. Membro da Plataforma de Crítica Feminista A Sega. Forma parte da denominada Xeración Poética dos 90.
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En xuño de 2018 gañou o Premio Xerais de novela, por Besta do seu sangue, obra da que o xurado asegurou que supón unha proposta "de carácter transgresor caracterizada pola súa multiplicidade de voces, polo seu esencialismo narrativo e por exhibir diversos rexistros".
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Tamara Andrés Padín
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En 2015 publicó Amentalista con la editorial Diversidad Literaria. En el ámbito de la poesía ha ganado el Concurso de Poesía O Facho en el año 2015 con su obra Nenæspiraes y su conjunto de poemas Xogos surrealistas se puede encontrar dentro del libro Premio 2014 de relato, poesía e tradución da Universidade de Vigo.
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Enxeñeira de camiños. Reside en Cecebre (Cambre), onde xestiona unha academia e fai obradoiros literarios para rapaces.
En 2018 gañou o premio Illa Nova con Senlleiras. É a historia de dúas mulleres, Alana (moza pobre) e Alda (influencer), en tempos diferentes, comezos do século XX e comezos do século XXI, pero cun mesmo problema, o maltrato dos seus homes. Na obra hai diferentes narradores e intégranse textos xornalísticos, das redes sociais, etc. -
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Nació y se crio en el barrio de San Blas en Madrid, y se licenció en Historia, especializándose en Historia Medieval, por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Es escritora, dramaturga y directora escénica.
Es cofundadora de la compañía de teatro STRIGA, que dirigía y en la que actuaba. Escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y activismo LGTB para varios medios, como la revista Agente Provocador, ElDiario.es, El Salto, SModa y Vogue España, además de en su propio Patreon.
Portero ha escrito diversos libros de poemas: La habitación de